Ichthyosaurus was a marine reptile that dominated the Mesozoic seas from the Triassic to the Late Cretaceous period.

Archaeologists have discovered fossilized facial bones of an ancient human race which lived roughly 1.4 million years ago, according to a study published in Nature. The remains were first discovered ...

Dinosaurs have captured people’s imagination ever since their bones and teeth were first scientifically described in 1822 by ...

"When we look at fossils, we find that many of them were viviparous, including Mesozoic marine reptiles like ichthyosaurs and ...

As ammonites evolved throughout the Mesozoic era, between 252 and 66 million ... of the sudden decline of their main food source: marine plankton. Ammonite shells are used today as index fossils ...

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Clusters of fossil serpulid worm tubes, like these Rotularia from the British Eocene, are common fossils in many Mesozoic and Cenozoic marine rocks The Museum’s collection of fossil annelids is both ...

We study the evolution of mammals, especially those that lived after dinosaur extinction and during past intervals of climate change, the structure and dynamics of Mesozoic ecosystems recorded in ...

A pilot to digitise all British Mesozoic vertebrate specimens held at the Museum. We are digitising our country’s amazing collection of dinosaurs, flying reptiles, prehistoric fish, sharks and ...

The team also compared it to one of the most detailed current marine ecosystem networks, based on existing Caribbean ecosystems, which served as a reference. The Mesozoic era, which includes the ...

The discovery marks the first Mesozoic scorpion fossil unearthed in the country. Besides its scientific name Jeholia longchengi gen. et sp. nov., the unearthed scorpion fossil has a simpler name ...